Dear Sir,
The Minister for the Environment has clashed with the European Commission
over its decision to take legal action against Ireland for eight breaches
of environment law", and the Minister reply was "the commission
has very little understanding of our planning and judicial systems
which are different to those used in Europe." We can only ask
our Minister to acknowledge the serious risk that pollution poses
to our food chain, animal, and human health, and to implement national
siting standards for hazardous-waste management facilities before
any agency can grant a licence to legally allow lead, cadmium, mercury
emissions to billow from a waste incinerator every day and night over
a radius of 40 miles.

We have learned that the agencies set up to protect
public health and the environment do so only if it is not threatening
to any corporation regardless of human health making it appear that
the interest of people is of no consequence. The government employ
incredibly highly paid consultants to rationalize fudging the truth,
while refusing to do health studies or even to put systems in place
to monitor health.

The judicial system is the last resort for the
public in demanding accountability, if we lose sight of this, we are
going to lose our democracy. It is in the area of the environment
that the government has crossed the line from a trust in its people
and democracy to a worship of technocracy and money, and has thrown
human values to the wind.